he was so bad
he's malias dad,
he evolved on gay marriage
that made heel so sad,
brought health care to the masses
took forever like molasses
but the racistb butthead voters decided that green, was the grasses
on the other side,
so Trump got elected
his actions they defended
facebook folks defriended
The Russia investigations
are now all open ended
there now you are not the worst rapper on the Huddle.

without an extremist branch they have nothing to fight for. They managed to turn a political party into a single issue voter (abortion). They rely on this issue to get the votes for what they really want.

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2017/december-web-only/roy-moore-doug-jones-alabama-editorial.html
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As suggested above, some of the critiques by the Left and center (matched by a fair amount of critiques by leading conservatives, by the way), are hard to argue with. Hypocrisy is again the most salient charge.
As recently as 2011, PRRI found that only 30 percent of white evangelicals believed “an elected official who commits an immoral act in their personal life can still behave ethically and fulfill their duties in their public and professional life.” But by late 2016, when Donald Trump was running for president, that number had risen sharply to 72 percent—the biggest shift of any US religious group.
The reason for the flip is not hard to discern. David Brody, a correspondent for the Christian Broadcasting Network, has noted the desperation and urgency felt throughout much of conservative Christianity. “The way evangelicals see the world, the culture is not only slipping away—it’s slipping away in all caps, with four exclamation points after that. It’s going to you-know-what in a handbasket.” The logic is then inexorable: “Where does that leave evangelicals? It leaves them with a choice. Do they sacrifice a little bit of that ethical guideline they’ve used in the past in exchange for what they believe is saving the culture?”
Apparently yes. This is precisely why, when serious and substantial allegations of sexual abuse of minors were made against Roy Moore, many doubled down on their support for him. Within days of this news story in The Washington Post, polls indicated that not only would 57 percent of evangelicals continue to support him, another 37 percent said they were now more likely to vote for him.

^^^ that all day. But people with more money, or at least people that place a greater emphasis on money, would tend IMHO to be more easily convinced to do bad things when they see other people getting ahead doing them, and that behaivior is normalized - just like say, former pro athletes and women in sports journalism.